Browsing All Posts published on »July, 2008«

In the Industry section of Svenska Dagsbladet (a Swedish national newspaper) there is an article on tar sands. It is a well written and factual article that describes the possibilities for oil production from Canada’s tar sands, “Black Gold is Hidden in the Sand”. We at Global Energy Systems at Uppsala University have made a […]

Energy Policy, the International Journal of the Political, Economic, Planning, Environmental and Social Aspects of Energy, has accepted for publication our study of decline rates of Norwegian Oil Production. Most of the work has been done of my student Mikael Höök. The full article can be read on the homepage for Global Energy Systems, Uppsala […]

On June 5 Marian Radetzki, a Swedish professor in economics, published a debate article in the ”Current Questions” section of the Swedish newspaper “Sydsvenska Dagbladet” (South Swedish Daily News) with the title “The oil price is unjustifiably high”. Today my reply was published in the same section and was given the title, “Oil will soon […]

Normally I try to keep my family out of my blog but today is an exception. My daughter Lovisa has given birth to a son and I have become a grandparent for the fourth time. A fantasitic feeling! People sometimes ask me why I work so intensively with Peak Oil and sometimes I answer that […]

During a few months the price of oil has been driven up to a level over $140 per barrel and we have heard speculation of future prices of $200 per barrel. However, at the end of last week the price sank by approximately 10% to a level under $130 per barrel. How should we interpret […]

The Church of Saint Eulalie in the little village of Montblanc, a typical Mediterranean village in the province of Languedoc in France, was mentioned for the first time in 1153 in a text from pope Eugene III. If one struggles up the church tower’s 35 meter high winding staircase one comes to a viewing platform […]

The first ASPO conference was organised in Uppsala in 2002 and now it is time for the seventh conference that will be in Barcelona on 20 and 21 October. Yesterday I was in Barcelona and discussed various details with the local organisers. Details about the conference can be obtained by going to ASPO’s homepage, www.peakoil.net. […]

Every leading newspaper around the world now has articles on the aviation industry. The price of aviation fuel is breaking all records. Previously it was gasoline that had the greatest effect on fuel prices but now it is diesel and aviation fuel follows the diesel price. Maybe that purchase of a holiday house in Thailand […]

The International Energy Agency, IEA, is an advisory body set up by the OECD. Sweden and 25 other nations are members of the OECD. In the international press the IEA is often called the OECD nations’ “watchdog”. The information that it produces should be available to the citizens of those nations but that is not […]

Now I have to take a step back in time to midsummer and the ”midsummer night’s dream” that Jenny Jewert describes in a column on the editorial page of the Swedish morning daily Dagens Nyheter. “When I had hopped over the seventh fence, I came to a fantastic meadow. Flowering wonderfully were cornflower, four-leafed clover, […]

Peeking at Peak Oil

Blog author: Kjell Aleklett

Kjell Aleklett is Professor of Physics at Uppsala University in Sweden where he leads the Uppsala Global Energy Systems Group (UGES).